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14 June 2021

COVID-19 vaccinations in Aged Residential Care facilities

Vaccinations for some of our most vulnerable community members are being well received with mobile vaccine clinics rolling out to Aged Residential Care (ARC) facilities around the region. Around 2800 residents have already received their first dose, with over half of the region’s ARC facilities offered vaccinations. The mobile teams will vaccinate almost 5300 aged residential care residents in Canterbury in the coming months.

The mobile staff have been commended for both the smooth running of the clinics and their interactions with residents.

“I appreciated how kind and gentle your team were with my residents and staff,” said Sarah Skinner, Nurse Manager at Merivale Retirement Village. “Thank you for how smoothly it all ran.”

More than 90 residents at Park Lane Retirement Village received their vaccines on Thursday 10 June, much to the relief of Manager, Jackie Bould. “For me, it’s the first time I’ll get a proper nights’ sleep – it’s like being a new mum, worrying about our residents. We don’t know what the future will bring, particularly when our borders open, so it’s just such a relief knowing they have this defence on board.”

Jackie said the combination of residential care residents and serviced apartments residents intermingling made it important that everyone received their vaccinations at the same time.

Studies show that about 95 percent of people who have received both doses of the vaccine are protected against getting COVID-19 symptoms. This means that once someone is fully vaccinated, they are far less likely to fall seriously ill.

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14 June 2021

Canterbury DHB set to retire the use of faxes by December 2021

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has directed all DHBs to retire faxing as a means of communicating documents internally and externally. MoH guidance is that secure digital communications within the New Zealand health and disability sector must comply with the Health Information Security Framework. Canterbury DHB has launched a project to give effect to this directive with a goal of retiring faxing across the organisation by December 2021. The team at Information Services Group (ISG) is leading this project and has created a website which is full of information and tools to assist departments to determine the best strategy for them to adopt. As the project moves forward, we are going to need your help to learn more about who you are sending faxes to The Fax Retirement Project has its own website. It contains information and tools to assist departments to develop their Fax Retirement strategy and receiving faxes from, says ISG Business Analyst Wayne Riggall. “When decommissioning occurs, it is the fax line extension The website contains easy-to-complete forms to assist in that is disabled.” recording these details. The team is looking forward to meeting with you in your “Canterbury DHB currently has many technologies which workplace to discuss your available options. can be utilised to replace faxing. Did you know that our “We can assist you to determine a fax retirement strategy Ricoh Multi-functional Device printers (MFDs) can be made that works best for you, your team and our patients,” Wayne capable of scanning a document and transmitting it via says. email? They can also receive emails directly and print them out – just like a fax does currently!” Details on how to contact the project team are available via the Fax Retirement project website cdhbhealth.sharepoint. MFDs can also be configured to scan documents directly com/sites/nofax. into network folders. This is a very useful strategy if using Outlook to create and send/receive emails, he says. The ISG project team is currently working with service managers across Canterbury DHB to conduct audits of fax machines – confirming usage and verifying the telephone extensions that are in use.